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23%OFFMatt Houlbrook - Prince of Tricksters: The Incredible True Story of Netley Lucas, Gentleman Crook - 9780226133157 - V9780226133157
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Prince of Tricksters: The Incredible True Story of Netley Lucas, Gentleman Crook

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Description for Prince of Tricksters: The Incredible True Story of Netley Lucas, Gentleman Crook Hardcover. Num Pages: 448 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 236 x 34. Weight in Grams: 786.
Meet Netley Lucas, Prince of Tricksters--royal biographer, best-selling crime writer, and gentleman crook. In the years after the Great War, Lucas becomes infamous for climbing the British social ladder by his expert trickery--his changing names and telling of tales. An impudent young playboy and a confessed confidence trickster, he finances his far-flung hedonism through fraud and false pretenses. After repeated spells in prison, Lucas transforms himself into a confessing ex-crook, turning his inside knowledge of the underworld into a lucrative career as freelance journalist and crime expert. But then he's found out again--exposed and disgraced for faking an ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
786g
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226133157
SKU
V9780226133157
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-15

About Matt Houlbrook
Matt Houlbrook is professor of cultural history at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957, also published by the University of Chicago Press. He lives in Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Reviews for Prince of Tricksters: The Incredible True Story of Netley Lucas, Gentleman Crook
Con man, royal biographer, tell-all memoirist
Netley Lucas had one more trick up his sleeve. He earned himself a historian who could explain how confidence men changed their era and why modern life itself became a racket. Through back-breaking detective work and an exposition that is both impeccable in its scholarship and playfully imaginative, Houlbrook exposes how Lucas and his ilk ... Read more

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